Quotes About Totality

We are the sum of all our parts

the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.

Accept your humanness as well as your divinity, totally and without reserve.

knowing that, too, was one

The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

Islam is nothing but man's exclusive and total submission to God.

A man's faith governs the totality of his life, or else his professed faith is not his real faith.

All In All Is All We Are

He completed the universe, he achieved the physical unity of the globe.

Don't get me wrong. A thinker thought, maybe it was Ortega y Gasset, that a country is in decadence when the parts no longer want to be part of the totality. It happened in the Soviet Union, it happened in Spain, it will happen in the States.

The technocrat is the natural friend of the dictator—computers and dictatorship; but the revolutionary lives in the gap which separates technical progress from social totality, and inscribed there his dream of permanent revolution. This dream, therefore, is itself action, reality, and an effective menace to all established order; it renders possible what it dreams about.

The universe comprises all being in a totality; for nothing that exists is outside or beyond infinite being, as the latter has no outside or beyond.

LET A MAN REALIZE that his life, in its totality, proceeds from his mind. Let him realize that the mind is a combination of habits which he can, by patient effort, modify to any extent, and over which he can thus gain complete ascendancy, mastery, and control. At once, he will have obtained possession of the key which shall open the door to his complete emancipation.

The All is in all, and all is in The All.

The unwholesome may be otherwise, but the Whole is ever holy.

It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc. All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole.

Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different.

Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living his metaphysical totality.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.

You can't just buy the sports section of 'The New York Times.' You take the whole paper.

The symphony of motherhood, it's about loving with absolute abandon, loving without regard for self, loving with a near totality of being. It's about a passion that could outburn the sun with its brightness. About a depthless hope and a fierce, rending joy.

T]he real danger does not lie in the fact that there is a lack or a loss of universality of knowledge among the specialists. The true danger lies in the pretense and claim of totality of knowledge.